Ventilating malt-floors



(No Model.)

H. P; SG'HNE'I'Z'KY. Vntilating' Malt Floors.

No. 240,465. Patented April 19,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN P. SGHNETZKY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

VENTILATING MALT-FLOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,465, dated April 19, 1881.

Application filed January 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN P. SGHNETZKY,

of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and

in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilatin g Malt-Floors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the ventilation of inalt floors, and Will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a malt-house, and Fig. 2 is a detached C are protected by deflectors D, attached to the inside of the shaft A, so that warm and vitiated air from a lower floor will be carried beyond the outlet in the next floor above.

Now, for the purpose of creating a draft in the ventilating-shaft A, I arrange pipes B therein, and connect them with the pipes that heat the building, and generally propose to carry them into the shaft from each floor, so that While there is but one pipe from the first fioor the pipes entering from the next floor will just double the amountof heat above, and thus accelerate the draft at each story; or I may only run pipes in from alternate floors.

To admit air to replace that'which passes out through the shaft 1 provide openings F in the outer walls, which, starting at a point about on a line with openings or outlets 0, pass up through the wall to a point near the ceiling.

Operation The draft caused by the heat from the pipes will draw the heavy gases that result from the germinating grain out through the outlets C, while the heated air which contains the lighter gases will be carried out through exits E, and as there will be a continual inflow from the openings F in the walls, the unhealthy air will all be gotten rid of, and a sufficientlyhigh temperature can be maintained to cause the grain to germinate.

It is immaterial, for all practical purposes, Whether the ventilating-shaft be in the center of the building or to one side, though, of course, it would generally be more convenient to place it in the center.

What I claim is- In a malt-house, a ventilatingshaft having inlets O and E, in combination with heatingpipes B, deflectors D, arranged on the inside of the ventilating-shaft, and fresh-airinlets F, constructed as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of December, 1880.

HERMAN P. SGEINETZKY'.

Witnesses:

S. S. STOUT, MARTIN REILLY. 

